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gaged  in  the  benevolent  work  of  the  Order,  in- 
creasing in, membership  until  the  number  reached 
some  thirty;  but  when  the  grand  rush  for  the 
mines  came,  in  1848,  when  the  church  became 
desolate,  schools  were  broken  up,  the  newspapers 
ceased  their  issues,  the  Odd  Fellows  made  a  bon- 
fire of  their  books  and  papers,  so  that  they  should 
not  fall  into  improper  hands,  stored  their  regalia, 
where  it  was  afterward  destroyed  by  one  of  those 
desolating  fires  which  swept  away  the  town  at 
frequent  intervals  during  those  days — and  they, 
tpoy  joined  in  the  hegira  to  the  mountains  in 
search  of  gold." 

The   same   authority  states  that   in  the  latter 





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N  extending    a  cordial    greeting   to   the 
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Lodge  of  the  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows,  which  assembles  in  the 
Capital  City  of  the  State  in  response 
to  the  earnest  invitation  extended  one  year  ago  by 
the  Mayor,  the  City  Council,  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce and  the  Odd  Fellows  of  Sacramento,  it  may 
not  be  inappropriate  to  briefly  relate  early  inci- 
dents which  linked  the  name  of  Sacramento  with 
the  history  of  the  three-link  fraternity  on  the 
Pacific  Coast. 

There  is  abundant  evidence  that  there  were 
quite  a  number  of  Odd  Fellows  in  California  prior 
to  the  arrival  of  even  the  vanguard  of  the  gold- 
seekers,  and  at  least  one  well  authenticated  at- 
tempt was  made  to  plant  the  banner  of  the  frater- 
nity near  the  Golden  Gate  a  year  before  the 
discovery  of  gold  at  Coloma. 

On  December  4,  1847,  an  advertisement,  signed 
"Many  Odd  Fellows,"  appeared  in  the  California 
Star,  a  pioneer  newspaper  of  San  Francisco,  say- 
ing, "The  friends  of  the  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows  are  respectfully  invited  to  attend  a 
meeting  of  the  Order  on  Tuesday  evening  next,  at 
the  Portsmouth  House." 

In  response  to  that  call,  about  a  dozen  Odd 
Fellows,  who  had  learned  the  lessons  of  the  fra- 
ternity in  the  Eastern  States,  assembled  at  the 
time  and  place  suggested,  and,  although  they  had 
no  charter  or  dispensation  from  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  the  United  States,  authorizing  them  so  to  do, 
they  proceeded  to  organize  a  lodge  and  engage  in 
the  beneficent  and  charitable  work  of  Odd  Fellow- 
ship. Past  Grand  Master  Charles  N.  Fox,  in  an 
article  written  for  the  "Official  History  of  Odd 
Fellowship,"  says: 

"There  is  no  positive  proof  that  this  lodge 
ever  attempted  to  initiate  or  confer  degrees,  but  it 
provided   itself    with    books   and    regalia,  and   en- 


K.   B.  OGDEN,  Grand  Master 

gaged  in  the  benevolent  work  of  the  Order,  in- 
creasing in, membership  until  the  number  reached 
some  thirty;  but  when  the  grand  rush  for  the 
mines  came,  in  1848,  when  the  church  became 
desolate,  schools  were  broken  up,  the  newspapers 
ceased  their  issues,  the  Odd  Fellows  made  a  bon- 
fire of  their  books  and  papers,  so  that  they  should 
not  fall  into  improper  hands,  stored  their  regalia, 
where  it  was  afterward  destroyed  by  one  of  those 
desolating  fires  which  swept  away  the  town  at 
frequent  intervals  during  those  days — and  they, 
too,  joined  in  the  hegira  to  the  mountains  in 
search  of  gold." 

The   same   authority  states  that   in  the  latter 


JOHN   E.  RAKER,  Deputy  Grand  Master 

part  of  1848  another  lodge  was  instituted,  "and 
upon  this  was  conferred  the  first  dispensation 
enjoyed  by  any  fraternal  association  in  California. 
But  this  dispensation  was  irregular,  and  the  lodge 
was  not  properly  instituted."  Its  records  having 
also  been  destroyed  by  fire,  little  is  known  con- 
cerning its  membership  or  work. 

However,  the  first  effective  work  of  great 
moment  accomplished  by  Odd  Fellows,  as  such,  in 
California,  was  at  Sacramento.  To  give  a  correct 
idea  of  the  condition  then  existing  in  what  is  now 
the  Capital  of  the  State,  and  which  necessitated 
prompt  and  energetic  action,  we  quote  the  follow- 
ing from  the  graphic  pen  of  Bro.  John  F.  Morse, 
who  was  Grand  Master  of  the  jurisdiction  in 
1853-4: 

"From  the  first  of  August,  1849,  tne  deluging 
tides  of  immigration  began  to  roll  into  the  city  of 
San  Francisco  their  hundreds  and  thousands  daily; 
not  men  made  robust  and  hearty  by  a  comfortable 
sea  voyage,  but  poor,  miserable  beings,  so  famished 


and  filthy,  so  saturated  by  scorbutic  diseases,  so 
depressed  and  despondent  in  spirit  as  to  make 
them  the  easy  prey  of  disease  and  death,  when 
they  had  expected  naught  but  health  and  fortune. 
Thus  did  the  mining  adventurers  pour  into  San 
Francisco,  nine-tenths  of  whom  for  a  few  months 
took  immediate  passage  for  Sacramento. 

"However  debilitated  they  might  be,  however 
penniless  and  destitute,  this  city,  the  great  focus 
of  mining  news,  the  nearest  trading  point  for  the 
mines  situated  upon  a  navigable  stream,  was  the 
only  place  that  men  could  think  of  stopping  at  for 
recuperative  purposes.  Hence,  from  Cape  Horn, 
from  all  the  Isthmian  routes,  from  Asiatic  seaports 
and  from  the  islands  of  the  Pacific,  men  of  the 
most  impoverished  health  were  converging  at 
Sacramento. 

"But  these  were  not  the  only  sources  of  diffi- 
culty to  Sacramento  in  1849.  At  the  same  time 
that  the  scurvy-ridden  subjects  of  the  ocean  began 
to  concentrate  among  us,  there  was  another  more 
terrible  train  of  scorbutic  sufferers  coming  in  from 
the  overland  roads,  so  exhausted  in  strength  and 
so  worn  out  with  the  calamities  of  the  journey  as 
to  be  but  barely  able  to  reach  the  Valley  City. 

"  From  these  sources,  Sacramento  became  a 
very  lazar  house  of  disease,  suffering  and  death. 
It  must  be  remembered  that  in  proportion  as  these 
scenes  began  to  accumulate,  just  in  such  propor- 
tion did  men  seem  to  grow  indifferent  to  the 
appeals  of  suffering  and  the  dictates  of  benevo- 
lence. The  more  urgent  and  importunate  the 
miseries  and  beseeching  cries  of  the  sick  and 
destitute,  the  more  obdurate,  despotic  and  terrible 
became  the  reign  of  cupidity.  Everything  seemed 
vocal  with  the  assurance  that  men  came  to  Califor- 
nia to  make  money,  not  to  devote  themselves  to  a 
useless  waste  of  time  in  procuring  bread  and 
raiment  for  the  dependent,  in  watching  over  and 
taking  care  of  the  sick,  or  in  the  burying  of  the 
dead.  *  *  *  The  first  and  most  effective 
relief,  the  first  organized  efforts  to  'visit  the  sick, 
relieve  the  distressed  and  bury  the  dead'  were 
made  by  the  Fraternity  of  Odd  Fellows.  The  first 
lights  of  effective  charity  that  gleamed  upon  the 
despairing  visions  of  hundreds  of  the  sick  and 
dying,    ascended    from    the    'altar   fires'    of    this 


glorious  brotherhood,  which  the  presiding  genius 
of  the  institution  had  kindled." 

On  the  morning  of  August  20,  1849,  General  A. 
M.  Winn,  formerly  of  Tennessee,  but  then  a  lead- 
ing business  man  of  the  new  city,  had  the  follow- 
ing notice  printed  in  handbill  form  and  scattered 
throughout  the  town: 

"  I.  O.  O.  F  —  The  Odd  Fellows  of  Sacramento 
City  will  meet  at  the  store  of  Winn,  Baker  & 
McGhee,  on  Third  street,  between  J  and  K,  this 
evening,  August  20th,  at  8  o'clock." 

That  evening  the  members  of  the  Order  met, 
in  accordance  with  the  notice,  and  were  called  to 
order  by  B.  F.  Hastings  of  Warren  Lodge,  No.  3, 
Vicksburg,  Miss.,  and,  on  motion,  Gen.  A.  M. 
Winn  was  called  to  the  chair,  and  he  explained 
the  objects  of  the  meeting  as  follows: 

"Brothers:  You  are  assembled  under  most 
extraordinary  circumstances — we  have  not  the 
power  to  work  as  a  lodge,  and  yet  the  immense 
amount  of  suffering  among  the  members  of  the 
Order  requires  our  most  active  benevolence  in 
carrying  out  the  great  principles  taught  us  at  the 
altar  of  Odd  Fellowship.  We  have  met  for  the 
purpose  of  finding  out  who  of  our  citizens  are 
Odd  Fellows,  and  to  form  an  association  for  the 
relief  of  sick  and  distressed  brothers. 

"A  dreadful  calamity  has  overtaken  us — hun- 
dreds are  lying  sick,  rolled  in  their  filthy  blankets, 
without  wife,  children  or  friends  to  nurse  them 
while  sick,  or  bury  them  when  dead.  We  who 
have  health  and  means  should  be  liberal  to  those 
in  distress,  as  long  as  in  our  power.  Let  us  do  all 
we  can,  without  a  violation  of  the  principles  of 
the  Order  " 

Daniel  McClaren  was  chosen  Secretary,  and  B. 
F.  Hastings  offered  the  following  resolutions, 
which  were  unanimously  adopted: 

"Resolved,  That  we  will  form  an  Association  of 
Odd  Fellows  in  Sacramento  City,  for  the  relief  of 
the  distressed  members  of  the  Order. 

"Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  three  be  ap- 
pointed to  draft  rules  and  regulations  for  our 
government. 

"Resolved,  That  a  Committee  of  Relief  be  now 
appointed,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  collect  by 
voluntary  contributions  from  members  of  the  Order 


an  amount  sufficient  to  relieve  the  distressed  and 
bury  the  dead,  until  further  provisions  are  made 
by  the  Association." 

The  Chair  appointed  as  Committee  on  Rules 
and  Regulations,  Bros.  B.  F.  Hastings,  Daniel 
McLaren  and  Joseph  C.  Derby,  and,  on  motion, 
the  Chair  was  added  to  the  committee. 

On  the  Relief  Committee  the  Chair  appointed 
E.  K.  Gallup,  Dennis  Rideout,  Isaac  H.  Norris, 
Samuel  McNulty  and  James  B.  Cunningham. 

The  meeting  then  adjourned  till  the  24th  of 
August  at"8  p.  m.,  when  the  members  of  the  Order 
met  pursuant  to  adjournment,  A.  M.  Winn  in  the 
Chair.  The  Committee  on  Constitution,  Rules 
and  Regulations  reported  the  following: 

CONSTITUTION. 

1st.  The  name  shall  be  the  "Sacramento  Odd 
Fellows  Association." 

2d.     Its   objects,  to  relieve  the  distressed  and 
bury  the  dead. 

3d.     Its  officers  shall  be   a   President,    Vice- 


GROVF,  L.  JOHNSON,  Grand  Warden 


H.  D.   RICHARDSON,  Grand  Secretary 

President,  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  who  shall 
hold  their  offices  one  year  and  until  their  suc- 
cessors are  elected,  and  shall  perform  the  duties 
incident  to  their  offices,  as  the  Association  may 
require. 

The  by-laws  adopted  at  that  time  have  been 
lost — were  probably  destroyed  in  the  floods  or 
fires  that  devastated  the  city  in  the  early  days, 
but  the  following  record  of  the  transactions  of 
the  meeting  found  its  way  into  print  in  1856: 

"On  motion,  the  Constitution  and  By-Laws 
were  adopted,  and  the  names  of  the  following  per- 
sons were  registered  as  members  of  the  Association : 
A.  M.  Winn,  B.  F.  Hastings,  Daniel  McLaren,  E. 
Meconekin,  James  A.  Myer,  Henry  E.  Robinson, 
Israel  S.  Chase,  John  Seymour,  James  A.  Cunning- 
ham, J.  Brown,  Thos.  Banister,  M.  E.  Hedrick, 
John  Taylor,  O.  C.  Osborne,  Joseph  B.  Adams, 
Samuel  Smith,  Ephraim  Martin,  Samuel  McNulty, 
J.  C.  Stambaugh,  W.  F.  Dietz,  H.  R.  Bradway,  E. 
S.  Elsworth,  James  A.  Reed,  John  H.  Flender,  A. 


Barker,  August  F.  Taylor,  Wm.  Kesey,  Benjamin 
Carter,  D.  O.  Mills,  C.  E.  WaTren,  Woodberry 
Masters,  E.  H.  Hall,  L.  A.  Booth,  A.  C.  Watson, 
W.  D.  Drake,  J.  C.  Jones,  D.  C.  Ashcraft,  R.  G. 
Random,  Wm.  P.  Sawyer,  J.  R.  Welden,  E.  K. 
Gallup,  John  Ledger,  C.  J.  Hendrake,  Robert 
Hammet,  R.  G.  Slaughter,  C.  F.  Hart,  Gilbert  L. 
Sees,  Henry  Bates,  J.  O.  Derby,  Isaac  N.  Norris, 
H.'S.  Merrill,  Wm.  Glaskin,  Edward  E    Hunter. 

On  motion,  the  Association  proceeded  to  elect 
officers,  which  resulted  as  follows:  A.  M.  Winn, 
Presideni;  Edward  E.  Hunter,  Vice-President; 
Daniel  McLaren,  Secretary;  E.  K.  Gallup,  Treas- 
urer. 

The  Committee  on  Relief  appointed  at  the 
former  meeting  was  continued. 

Several  members  of  the  Order  were  reported 
sick  and  committees  were  appointed  to  attend 
them.  The  Committee  on  Relief  was  directed  to 
report  all  cases  of  sickness  or  distress  to  the 
President. 

The  President  was  vested  with  full  power  to 
do  whatever  he  deemed  necessary  for  the  good  of 
the  Association  or  the  members  of  the  Order. 
The  Secretary  was  directed  to  receive  all  moneys 
and  pay  the  same  to  the  Treasurer.  The  Treas- 
urer was  directed  to  receive  all  moneys  from  the 
Secretary  and  disburse  the  same  on  the  warrant  of 
the  President,  countersigned  and  numbered  by 
the  Secretary. 

The  admission  fee  was  fixed  at  $5.00. 

It  was  ordered  that  the  regular  meetings  should 
be  held  every  Friday  evening  at  the  President's 
office,  on  Third  street,  between  J  and  K. 

The  foregoing  are  the  only  authenticated  pro- 
ceedings of  this  self-sacrificing  and  noble  band  of 
brothers  that  has  been  handed  down  to  us,  the 
record  book  having  been  lost  in  the  flood  of  Jan- 
uary, 1850.  But  from  chronicles  and  traditions  of 
the  time  it  is  learned  that  the  membership  per- 
formed with  fidelity  their  self-assumed  labors  of 
love  and  contributed  with  unstinted  hand  the 
means  necessary  to  bear  the  heavy  expense  en- 
tailed. The  Association  met  regularly  and  the 
cases  of  sickness,  distress  and  penury  multiplied 
until  it  became  necessary  to  add  every  member  of 
the   Association   to  the    Relief    Committee;    their 


labors  were  incessant;  they  frequently  became  ill 
from  over-exertion,  and  some  contracted  fatal  con- 
tagion from  brothers  whose  suffering  they  sought 
to  alleviate.  Reports  were  made  to  the  President 
day  and  night,  and  he  proved  a  most  worthy 
executive  of  as  noble  a  band  of  Odd  Fellows  as 
ever  took  the  obligations  of  the  fraternity.     Many 


would  thrill  the  heart  of  every  lover  of  humanity, 
an  immense  and  immeasurable  amount  of  relief 
was  dispensed.  But  this  was  not  sufficient  to  dis- 
sipate the  increasing  calamity.  Men  still  sickened 
and  died  without  assistance;  men  were  still  buried 
in  the  filth  of  an  unattended  sickness,  and  fre- 
quently without  the  benefit  of  being  sewed  up  in 


I.  O.  O.  F.  Temple  owned  exclusively  by  the  Odd  Fellows  of  Sacramento 


of  them  left  their  indelible  impress  upon  the 
political,  educational  and  industrial  history  of  the 
State. 

Past  Grand  Master  Morse,  writing  of  the  work 
accomplished  by  those  pioneer  Odd  Fellows,  said: 

"From   this  Association,  the  history  of   which 


a  blanket  for  interment.  Rough  pine  coffins 
ranged  from  $60.00  to  $150.00,  and  it  was  not  to  be 
expected  that  in  the  midst  of  such  distress  and 
poverty  coffins  could  always  be  procured.  This 
Association  spent  thousands  of  dollars  for  coffins 
alone,  and  when  General  Winn  became  the  execu- 


tive  officer  of   the  city  government,  no  man  was 
refused  a  coffin  burial." 

This  Association  maintained  its  existence  and 
continued  to  "visit  the  sick,  relieve  the  distressed 
and  bury  the  dead"  until  the  organization  of  Sac- 
ramento Lodge,  No.  2,  which  was  instituted  on  ! 
January  28,  1851,  by  Past  Grand  James  Smiley, 
acting  as  Deputy  Grand  Sire. 

Since  that  time  there  have  been  instituted  in 
Sacramento  City  five  more  lodges — Eureka,  No.  4;  ; 
El  Dorado,   No.   8;  Capitol,  No.  87;  Schiller,  No. 


f      ODD  FELLOWS'  H' 


ALBION  C.  SVVEETSER 

Oldest  Living  California  Initiate,  Initiated  in  Eureka 

Lodge,  No.  4,  March  24,  1852 

105  and  Industrial,  No.  157;  and  in  Sacramento 
County,  outside  of  the  city,  six  other  lodges — 
Granite,  No.  62;  Phoenix,  No  239;  Elk  Grove,  No. 
274;  Florin,  No.  364;  Isleton,  No.  108  and  Oak 
Park,  No.  5. 

The  twelve  lodges  in  Sacramento  County  had 
on  January  1,  1908,  a  combined  membership  of 
2,059,  and  their  joint  assets  aggregated    $500,000. 


The  above  is  a  true  picture  of  the  I.  O.  O.  F. 
bluff  across  the  Feather  River  from  Oroville.  It 
sented  is  hard  to  surpass.  There  are  now  domicile 
wards,  who  are  provided  with  all  the  necessarit 
improvements  have  been  made  in  the  Home  di 
adding  to  the  comfort  of  the  residents.  Concernii 
their  report  to  the  Grand  Lodge  in  1907,  "The  hes 
remarkable.  *  *  *  The  average  age  of  those 
was  84  years;  only  five  died  who  were  under  the  ag 


AT  THERMALITO 


fhermalito.  The  building  stands  on  the  brow  of  a 
ded  by  orange  and  olive  groves,  and  the  view  pre- 
lome  some  one  hundred  and  thirty  of  the  Order's 
my  of  the  comforts  and  luxuries  of  life.  Many 
last  year,  enlarging  its  rooming  capacity,  and 
alth  of  the  location,  the  Board  of  Trustees  said  in 
ions  of  the  Home  the  past  year  have  been  simply 
i  was  76  years.  The  average  age  of  five  of  them 
id  only  three  who  were  under  the  age  of  70  years." 


Within  the  city  and  county  we  have  ten  Re- 
bekah  Lodges — Rising  Star,  No.  8;  Florin,  No.  20; 
Germania,  No.  31;  Rei,  No.  132;  Elk  Grove,  No. 
136;  Capital  City,  No.  160;  Fedora,  No.  166; 
Hogate,  No.  294,  and  Leota,  No.  301.  All  of  these 
are  in  a  flourishing  condition. 

The  Encampment  branch  of  the  Order  is 
represented  by  four  energetic  and  active  subordi- 
nates— Pacific,  No.  2;  Folsom,  No.  24;  Occidental, 
No.  42,  and  Gait,  No.  65. 

The  Grand    Lodge  of   California   has  honored 


WILLIAM  BKCKMAN 

Second  Oldest  Living  California  Initiate,  Initiated  in 

Sacramento  Lodge,  No.  2,  January  23,  1853 

Sacramento  hitherto  five  times  by  holding  its 
annual  sessions  in  this  city,  as  follows:  in  1854, 
1858,  i860,  1864  and  1871.  At  the  latter  date  the 
membership  in  the  Order  in  this  jurisdiction  was 
13,706.     Today  our  membership  is  42,232. 

On  all  previous  occasions,  Sacramento's  citizens 
extended  a  welcome  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  In- 
dependent  Order   of    Odd   Fellows,  and    we,  the 


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MRS.  ELLA  VAN  COURT 
President   Rebekah  Assembly 

authorized  representatives  of  all  the  Subordinate 
and  Rebekah  Lodges,  Encampments  and  the 
Patriarchs  Militant,  today  extend  cordial  and 
hearty  greetings  to  the  officers  and  representatives 
of  the  fifty-sixth  annual  communication  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  and  the  eighteenth  annual  session  of 
the  Rebekah  Assembly  of  California  and  their 
friends,  and  it  is  our  sincere,  heartfelt  hope  that 
during  your  brief  sojourn  with  us 

"The  nights  will  be. filled  with  music, 
And  the  cares  that  oppress  the  day 

Will  fold  their  tents  like  the  Arabs, 
And  as  quietly  steal  away." 

The  Reception  Committee. 


Monday,  May  iith 

Initiatory  degree  by  El  Dorado  Lodge,  No.  8, 
at  Temple  Hall,  Ninth  and  K  Streets,  at  8  p.  m. 

Tuesday,  May  12TH 

Grand  Lodge  session  at  Pavilion  Hall,  Sixth 
and  M  streets,  at  9  a.  m. 

Rebekah  Assembly  at  Elks'  Hall,  824  J  Str  et. 

Reception  at  Crocker  Art  Gallery,  Third  and 
O  Streets,  at  8  p.  m.  (Take  any  west  b  unl  cir 
and  transfer  to  Third  Street  line  ) 

deception  "program 

1.  Introductory  remarks  by  Gen.  O.  W.  Erie- 
wine,  Chairman  of  Reception  Committee. 

2.  Address  of  welcome  by  Gov.  J.  N.  GilKtt. 

3.  Address  of  welcome  by  Mayor  C.  L.  White. 

4.  Address  of  welcome  by  Brother  Grove  L. 
Johnson. 

5.  Response  by  Grand  Master  F.  B.  Ogden. 

6.  Response  by  Ella  E.  Van  Court,  President 
Rebekah  Assembly. 

Wednesday,  May  13TH 

Excursion  to  Oroville  by  Grand  Lodge. 

Leave  Northern  Electric  Depot.  Eig!  th  and  J 
Streets,  at  8  a.  m.  Train  will  arrive  at  Odd 
Fellows'  Home  at  10:30.  Lunch  will  be  served  on 
the  grounds  at  12:30.  Returning,  train  will  leave 
the  Home  at  2:30  o'clock  and  proceed  to  Oroville 
where  there  will  be  a  stop  of  half  an  hour,  leav- 
ing Oroville  at  3:30  o'clock,  sharp,  arriving  at 
Sacramento  about  6:30  o'clock  in  the  evening. 

(Transportation  will  be  furnis  led  free  to  all 
Representatives,  Grand  Officers  and  Past  Grand 
Masters  in  attendance.  Members  of  the  family 
may  accompany  the  Representatives  by  obtaining 
tickets  at  a  cost  of  $2.10,  being  one-half  the  regu- 
lar fare. 

EVENING 

Rebekah  degree  at  Pavilion  Hall  by  Rainbow 
Rebekah  Lodge,  No.  97,  of  Stockton. 


MRS.  LIZZIE  L.  COOMBS 
Vice-President  Rebekah  Assembly 

Thursday,  May  14TH 

Session  of  Grand  Lodge. 
Session  of  Rebekah  Assembly. 

EVENING 

Initiatory  degree  at  Pavilion  Hall  by  Charity 
Lodge,  No.  6,  of  Stockton. 

Rebekah  degree  at  Elks'  Hall  by  Capital  City 
Rebekah  Lodge,  No.  160,  of  Sacramento. 

Friday,  May  15TH 

Session  of  Grand  Lodge. 
Session  of  Rebekah  Assembly. 

EVENING 

Ball  at  Pavilion  Hall. 


3\fcfresl)m£itts 

During  the  week  the  Rebekah  Lodges  of  Sac- 
ramento County  will  serve  refreshments  in  the 
banquet  room  at  Odd  Fellows'  Temple,  Ninth  and 
K  Streets,  on  the  afternoon  of  each  day  as  follows: 

Tuesday — Rei  of  Gait,  Florin,  Sacramento, 
Germania,  and  Hogate  of  Isleton. 

Wednesday  —  All  Rebekah  Lodges  of  the 
County. 

Thursday — Fedora  of  Folsom  and  Rising  Star 
of  Sacramento. 

Friday — Elk  Grove,  Capital  City  of  Sacra- 
mento, and  Leota  of  Oak  Park. 


MRS.  IVA  S.  RAKER 
Warden  Rebekah  Assembly 


(Tommtttee  of  .Arrangements 


GEN.  O.   W    ERLEWINE,  Chairman 

Strordinate  Lodges 

.Sacramento,  No:  2— C.  W.  Baker,  A.  W.  O'Brien,  N. 
Wilcox. 

Eureka,  No.  4— D.  F.  Fox,  C.  F.  Hattesou,  W.  F. 
Meldrum. 

Oak  Park,  No.  5— G.  W.  Houghton,  C.  W.  Guild,  W. 
H.  Roberts. 

El  Dorado,  No.  8— J.  C.  March,  H.  F.  G.  Wulff,  W.  B. 
DeCosta. 

Granite,  No.  62— F.  T.  Taylor,  J.  E.  Butler,  T.  H.  Betz. 

Capitol,  No.  87— G.  E.  Van  Demark,  Chas.  A.  Bliss, 
N .  Harvie. 

Schiller,  No.  105  —  P.  Newman,  Geo.  Littig,  A.  H. 
Gerhardt. 

Isleton.  No.  108— P.  G.  de  Back,  W.  W.  Smith,  T.  J. 
Mealer. 

Industrial,  No.  157— C.  M.  Harrison,  W.  L.  Rickett, 
Wm.  Trapper. 

Phoenix,  No.  239 — J.  W.  Angrave,  V.  E.  Kreeger,  W. 
T.  Davies. 

Elk  Grove,  No.  274 — J.  Mahon,  T.  Duffy,  Jas.  Costello. 

Florin,  No.  364 — H.  A.  Leimbach,  R.  Cornelius,  F.  F. 
Kennedy. 

Rebekah  Lodges 

Rising  Star,  No.  8 — Mrs.  Vesta  Mannix,  Mrs.  Carrie 
Aiken,  Mrs.  Annie  Sherburn. 

Florin,  No.  20 — Mrs.  Mira  Reese,  Mrs.  Nellie  Stubbs, 
Mrs.  Florence  Hollman. 


Germania,  No.  31— Mrs.  R.  Hogue,  Mrs.  Mav  Lindsav, 
Mrs.  VV.  E.  Johnson. 

Rei,  No.  132 — Miss  Hattie  Wright,  Mrs.  Jennie  V. 
Riston,  Miss  Rose  Garcide. 

Elk  Grove,  No.  136— Miss  Ruth  Gage,  Mrs.  Stella 
Kennedy,  Miss  Julia  Putney. 

Capital  City,  No.  160— Mrs.  Laura  Fox,  Mrs.  Frankie 
Carlaw,  Mrs.  Jennie  Egan. 

Fedora,  No.  166 — Carrie  Slocum,  Hannah  Kluniph, 
Addie  Surbaugh. 

Sacramento,  No.  232 — Mrs.  Etta  Starr,  Mrs.  Emma 
Wild,  Mrs.  Annie  Gardner. 

Hogate,  No.  294— Mrs.  P.  G.  de  Back,  Mrs.  T.  J. 
Mealer,  Mrs.  Alice  Byron. 

Leota,  No.  301 — Amanda  Olmsted,  Mrs.  Belle  Hale, 
Mrs.  Mary  McCormick. 

Encampments 

Pacific,  No.  2— D.J.  Mannix,  L.  R.  Plate,  J.    H.   Moon. 

Folsom,  No.  24— T.  H.  Betz.  F.  T.  Taylor,  J.  H. 
Hendricks. 

Occidental,  No.  42 — A.  F.  Ravmond,  W .  H.  Renwick, 
A.  N.  Bullock. 

Gait,  No.  66— V.  E.  Kreeger,  J.  W.  Angrave,  W.  T. 
Davies. 

Patriarchs  Miutant 

Canton  Sacramento.  No.  1— W.  E.  Bowman,  W.  H. 
Sherburn,  O.  W.  Erlewine 


MRS.  MARY  E.   DONOHO 
Secretary  Rebekah  Assembly 

PRESS  OF  A.   N.  BULLOCK,  I.   O.  O.   F.  BLDG. 


Committee  of  ^Arrangements 


GEN.  O.   \V.   ERLEWINE,  Chairman 

SUBORDINATE   LODGES 

Sacramento,   No:    2 — C.  W.  Baker,    A.  W.  O'Brien, 
Wilcox. 

Eureka,   No.  4— D.    F.   Fox,    C.   F.    Hattesou,    W. 
Meldrum. 

Oak  Park,  No.  5— G.  W.  Houghton,  C.  W.  Guild,  \^ 
H.  Roberts. 

El  Dorado,  No.  S— J.  C.  March,  H.  F.  G.  Wulff,  W. 
DeCosta. 

Granite,  No.  62— F.  T.  Taylor,  J.  E.  Butler,  T.  H.  Bt 

Capitol,  No.  S7— G.  E.  Vran  Demark,  Chas.  A.  Blis 
N.  Harvie. 

Schiller,    No.    105  —  P.    Newman,   Geo.    Littig,    A. 
Gerhardt. 

Isleton.  No.  108— P.  G.  de  Back,    W.  VV.  Smith,  T. 
Mealer. 

Industrial,  No.  157 — C.  M.  Harrison,  W.  L.  Ricket| 
Wm.  Trapper. 

Phoenix,  No.  239 — J.   W.  Angrave,   V.  E.  Kreeger, 
T.  Uavies. 

Elk  Grove,  No.  274— J.  Mahon,  T.  Duffy,  Jas.  Costelk 

Florin,  No.  364 — H.  A.  Leimbach,   R.  Cornelius,   F. 
Kennedy. 

Rebekah  Lodges 

Rising  Star,  No.  8 — Mrs.  Vesta  Mannix,  Mrs.  Carrij 
Aiken,  Mrs.  Annie  Sherburn. 

Florin,  No.  20 — Mrs.  Mira  Reese,  Mrs.  Nellie  Stubbs 
Mrs.  Florence  Hollman. 


